The clinic, which is the second of its kind in the region, will operate like a traditional urgent care center but provide care for depression, addiction, grief and psychosis. It will also offer appointments for patients with bipolar, schizophrenia and other disorders that require long-term medications.
Patients will be able to drop in for mental healthcare and see professionals the same day. The center will be staffed with 20 members from SSM, nonprofit Places for People and the St. Louis Behavioral Health Bureau, and it will include intake specialists, a nurse practitioner, a pharmacist and peer support specialists, the report said.
The center will also add pediatric mental health in the future and hire a child psychiatrist.
This is SSM Health’s second behavioral health urgent care. The first was opened at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo., in 2020.
